I just worked it out so that Sympoze will automatically import each post from the blogs I track in my philosophy blogroll and submit it as a scoop. All readers can now sift through all of the posts in my blog roll via Sympoze. Users can vote the blog posts up and have them promoted [...]
Update: I finished it.
I was just asked to referee a journal submission for the first time. If I don’t post that I finished within the next two weeks - yell at me.
Introducing Philosophy Journal Mashups!
Any philosophy journal with an RSS feed can be run through a mashup program. Mashups combine multiple RSS feeds and automatically screen those feeds for specific content. Once you’ve screened the journal articles for the kind of content you want, you can turn the results into a widget to post on a [...]
Informal Logic just switched over to open access. Consequently.org has a post about it here. [HT: Mark and Andrei]I knew it had to be possible for a closed access journal to migrate over to an online open access format, and I even suggested that this would be a way for the discipline to get more [...]
Couldn’t a widely read Open Access Journal pay its referees for timely reports with advertising revenues? (Yes, I’m back to thinking about this issue again.)
Imagine you’re an editor and you manage to get your open access journal into the top tier. Suppose you get 500 submissions a year that you deem are worth having an [...]
…the April 2008 edition of Analysis just posted to my RSS feed. Here’s the Blackwell Link. Here’s the Link for those of you with Ingenta Connect. This edition looks like it is simply loaded with good stuff.
Also, I just noticed that the January 2008 edition of Analysis is available for FREE at Blackwell.
In a previous post, I argued that philosophy should push toward publishing in Open Access Journals. Here’s a list of things I think we need to start doing to realize that shift. Some of these will seem quite obvious, but we might as well have the list anyway.
1. Everyone Start Submitting to Open Access Journals
I [...]
Jon Cogburn has been on a roll with some interesting posts discussing the ethics of blind review. Here is his most recent installment. He argues that blind reviewers ought to take what he calls The Good Samaritan approach to reviewing (as opposed to the Professor Angrypants or Joe Friday approach).
What are those approaches? Read his [...]
UPDATE [3/9/2007] - How To Make the Move To Open Access JournalsUPDATE [3/8/2007] - I just thought of Pro #12 this morning. See below.UPDATE [3/8/2007] - I just thought of Pro #13 this afternoon. See below.UPDATE [3/8/2007] - I’m also addressing - Con #6. See below.In a previous post, I claimed that philosophy journals should [...]
Jon Cogburn has an interesting post on the blind review process for philosophy journals here. He also gives us a promissory note to post more on this issue.
UPDATE: Here’s the promissory note.